And a new study from California State University researchers has found that texting can improve teens' writing in informal essays and many other writing assignments.
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K8 Science - 15 views
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"Join the mission! We invite you and your students to participate in real-time, real-life space research, beginning with the lift-off of Space Shuttle Atlantis on November 16, 2009. Painted Lady "butterflynauts" (Vanessa cardui) will be transported on the Space Shuttle Atlantis to the International Space Station (ISS), where they will live for several weeks."
Could Texting Be Good for Students? - 10 views
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Let's face it: Texting is here to stay. The average 13- to 17-year-old sends 2,900 texts a month, according to the market research firm Nielsen. And while it might be a punishable offense in most schools, some teachers say that texting has educational tie-ins and that it can teach positive language skills, the Charlotte Observer in North Carolina reports.
Musical sensibility can help shape teaching, research education - 10 views
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Liora Bresler, a professor of curriculum and instruction in the U. of I. College of Education, says that the inherently performative and improvisatory aspects of teaching, along with the temporal, polyphonic aspects of scholarly research, compares favorably with musicianship.
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"When you teach, you have a lesson plan, but you're not bound to follow it. You play, follow up, improvise and adapt, as the situation dictates. It's intellectual engagement, and you want to be engaging. So having a real, live audience makes a difference."
Bresler said that the commitment to a third-party audience helps the teacher "see, perceive and make sense of what they're trying to communicate on a very different level."
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Teachers have to act in real-time, in the moment, and have to make a lot of decisions on-the-fly.
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Liora Bresler, a professor of curriculum and instruction in the U. of I. College of Education, says that the inherently performative and improvisatory aspects of teaching, along with the temporal, polyphonic aspects of scholarly research, compares favorably with musicianship.
Mizuko Ito on Why Time Spent Online Is Important for Teen Development - MacArthur Foundatio... - 10 views
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It might surprise parents to learn that it is not a waste of time for their teens to hang out online," says Mizuko Ito, University of California, Irvine researcher and the lead author of the most extensive U.S. study to date on teens and their use of digital media. The study showed that America's youth are developing important social and technical skills online often in ways adults do not understand or value.
Getting It Wrong: Surprising Tips on How to Learn: Scientific American - 36 views
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research by Nate Kornell, Matthew Hays and Robert Bjork at U.C.L.A. that recently appeared in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition reveals that this worry is misplaced. In fact, they found, learning becomes better if conditions are arranged so that students make errors.
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People remember things better, longer, if they are given very challenging tests on the material, tests at which they are bound to fail. In a series of experiments, they showed that if students make an unsuccessful attempt to retrieve information before receiving an answer, they remember the information better than in a control condition in which they simply study the information. Trying and failing to retrieve the answer is actually helpful to learning. It’s an idea that has obvious applications for education, but could be useful for anyone who is trying to learn new material of any kind.
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Research by Nate Kornell, Matthew Hays and Robert Bjork at U.C.L.A. that recently appeared in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition reveals that this worry is misplaced. In fact, they found, learning becomes better if conditions are arranged so that students make errors.
American trio get nobel prize for medicine(2009)for discovering 'Telomerase'. - Inquisitive... - 2 views
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Point, Click, and Cheat: Frequency and Type of Academic Dishonesty in the Virtual Classroom... - 0 views
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Study that finds that college students might be cheating less often than many believe.
Fresh research showing the damage of filtering 'real world' technology - 0 views
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I have been advocating for our school technology admins to address firewalling and filtering...this is great!
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This We Know - 0 views
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Explore U.S. Government Data About Your Community
Infloox - Literary search engine/wiki - 0 views
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Website devoted to literature research; combines a search engine with wiki-style pages and artificial intelligence. Use it to find an author's favourite influences, as well as who they in turn influenced.
Study Finds That Online Education Beats the Classroom - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views
Songsmith - Everyone has a song inside - 0 views
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Free from Microsoft Research:
Songsmith generates musical accompaniment to match a singer's voice. Just choose a musical style, sing into your PC's microphone, and Songsmith will create backing music for you. Then share your songs with your friends and family, post your songs online, or create your own music videos. (No help if you can't sing) -
Free from Microsoft Research:
Songsmith generates musical accompaniment to match a singer's voice. Just choose a musical style, sing into your PC's microphone, and Songsmith will create backing music for you. Then share your songs with your friends and family, post your songs online, or create your own music videos. (No help if you can't sing)
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